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Night's Dream, II. i  From Perigenia, whom he ravished? And make him with fair Ægle break his faith, With Ariadne, and Antiopa?

Tita. These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport. Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs; which, falling in the land, Hath every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents: The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard: The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud, And the quaint mazes in the wanton green For lack of tread are undistinguishable: The human mortals want their winter here: No night is now with hymn or carol blest: Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound:  78 Perigenia; cf. n. 79, 80 Ægle Antiopa; cf. n. 81 forgeries: idle inventions 82 spring: beginning 84 paved fountain: spring with pebble-covered bottom 85 margent: margin 86 ringlets: circular dances 90 Contagious: noxious 91 pelting: petty 92 continents: boundaries 97 murrion: diseased 98 nine men's morris; cf. n. 99 wanton: luxuriant 101-103 Cf. n. 105 rheumatic diseases: colds, etc. 